H. P. Lovecraft

Life is a hideous thing.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Adulthood is hell.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating.

— H. P. Lovecraft

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

— H. P. Lovecraft

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

— H. P. Lovecraft

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

— H. P. Lovecraft

The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.

— H. P. Lovecraft

I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

— H. P. Lovecraft

I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Who are we to combat poisons older than history and mankind?”

— H. P. Lovecraft

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.

— H. P. Lovecraft

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

— H. P. Lovecraft

All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me.

— H. P. Lovecraft

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and…

— H. P. Lovecraft

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

— H. P. Lovecraft

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come…

— H. P. Lovecraft

To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions…

— H. P. Lovecraft

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for…

— H. P. Lovecraft

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed…

— H. P. Lovecraft

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“What do we know,” he had said, “of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an…

— H. P. Lovecraft

It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all…

— H. P. Lovecraft

When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“The cloudless day is richer at its close; A golden glory settles on the lea; Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool repose…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you.

— H. P. Lovecraft

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

— H. P. Lovecraft

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

— H. P. Lovecraft